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Ruth Allen is a senior expertise lawyer in our competition practice

Ruth specialises in EU and UK competition law, including cartels, abuse of dominance and merger control, with a particular interest in competition litigation. She works alongside the global competition and antitrust team, supporting the European offices in particular. Her expertise role includes gathering and disseminating knowhow, running and presenting training programmes, and generally ensuring technical excellence and first-class documentation for her colleagues. Ruth also develops and presents training for clients (including e-learning programmes), prepares client briefings on key developments, and regularly contributes to external publications.

Ruth has advised clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including energy, financial services, media and retail. Prior to taking up her role in the expertise team, she worked as a fee-earner for a number of years, and also spent time at the European Commission and on secondment to the in-house legal team of a large energy company.